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Georges Clemenceau

Georges Clemenceau
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54th Prime Minister of France
In office
16 November 1917 – 20 January 1920
President Raymond Poincaré
Preceded by Paul Painlevé
Succeeded by Alexandre Millerand
In office
25 October 1906 – 24 July 1909
President Armand Fallières
Preceded by Ferdinand Sarrien
Succeeded by Aristide Briand
Minister of War
In office
16 November 1917 – 20 January 1920
President Raymond Poincaré
Preceded by Paul Painlevé
Succeeded by André Joseph Lefèvre
Minister of the Interior
In office
14 March 1906 – 24 July 1909
President Armand Fallières
Prime Minister Ferdinand Sarrien
Preceded by Fernand Dubief
Succeeded by Aristide Briand
Member of the Senate
In office
10 June 1902 – 10 January 1910
Preceded by Ernest Denormandie
Succeeded by Gustave Fourment
Constituency Var
Member of the National Assembly
In office
4 October 1885 – 10 October 1893
Preceded by Auguste Maurel
Succeeded by Joseph Jourdan
Constituency Var
In office
20 February 1876 – 9 November 1885
Constituency Seine
In office
8 February 1871 – 27 March 1871
Constituency Seine
President of the Council of Paris
In office
28 November 1875 – 24 April 1876
Preceded by Pierre Marmottan
Succeeded by Barthélemy Forest
Personal details
Born Georges Benjamin Clemenceau
28 September 1841
Mouilleron-en-Pareds, Vendée
Died 24 November 1929(1929-11-24) (aged 88)
16th arrondissement of Paris
Political party Independent Radical
Spouse(s) Mary Eliza Plummer
(1869–1891; divorced)
Children Michel
Alma mater University of Nantes
Profession Physician, journalist, politician
Nickname(s) Father of Victory
The Tiger

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɔʁʒ bɛ̃ʒamɛ̃ klemɑ̃so]; 28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French politician, physician, and journalist who served as Prime Minister of France during the First World War. A leader of the Radical Party, he played a central role in the politics of the French Third Republic.

Clemenceau first served as Prime Minister from 1906 to 1909, and then again from 1917 to 1920. In favour of a total victory over the German Empire, he militated for the restitution of Alsace-Lorraine to France. He was one of the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. Nicknamed "Père la Victoire" (Father Victory) or "Le Tigre" (The Tiger), he took a harsh position against defeated Germany, though not quite as much as the President Raymond Poincaré, and won agreement on Germany's payment of large sums for reparations.

Clemenceau was a native of the Vendée, born at Mouilleron-en-Pareds. During the period of the French Revolution, the Vendée had been a hotbed of monarchist sympathies, but by the time of his birth, its people were fiercely republican. The region was remote from Paris, rural and poor. His mother, Sophie Eucharie Gautreau (1817–1903), was of Huguenot descent. His father, Benjamin Clemenceau (1810–1897), came from a long line of physicians, but he lived off his lands and investments and did not practice medicine. Benjamin had a reputation as an atheist and a political activist; he was arrested and briefly held in 1851 and again in 1858. He instilled in his son a love of learning, devotion to radical politics, and a hatred of Catholicism. The lawyer Albert Clemenceau (1861–1955) was his brother.


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